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Katharina Dobs

@kathadobs.bsky.social
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Professor @JLU | cognitive computational neuroscientist | mom of 3 | she/her www.vccnlab.org

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Josh McDermott @joshhmcdermott.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Postdoc opening in my lab to work on NeuroAI approaches to improve prosthetic devices for human hearing. We offer a great training environment and strong mentorship. Prior expertise in machine learning and signal processing are essential. Apply here: careers.peopleclick.com/careerscp/cl...
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MIT - Postdoctoral Associate - Cambridge MA 02139
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
Was fun to be part of this project on how alpha rhythms predict motion trajectories under occlusion, led by the fantastic Susan! Check it out! 👀🧠📶
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 30/08/2026
I'm really excited to be speaking at CiNet and visiting Japan again after such a long time. What a great line-up! Come and join us! 🌸🧠🤖 #NeuroAI
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Lenny van Dyck @levandyck.bsky.social · 05/08/2026
Excited to be at #CCN2026 in New York to present brand-new work with @kathadobs.bsky.social 🥳 By testing hundreds of categories, we found striking differences in functional specialization between visual cortex and DNNs 🧠 Come find me at poster F81 on Thursday 1:45-3:30 p.m. Happy to chat!
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Leyla Isik @lisik.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Also if you're at #CCN2026 come chat with me about Minds, Machines, and Brains @mmb-journal.bsky.social A new journal we are launching with @mitpress.bsky.social with my co-EICs Kendrick Kay & Ellie Pavlick, and the rest of the wonderful editorial board: direct.mit.edu/mmb/pages/ed...
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Editorial Information | Minds, Machines, and Brains | MIT Press
Editorial Information | Minds, Machines, and Brains | MIT Press Editorial Information All inquiries should be directed to mindsmachinesandbrains@gmail.com Co-Editors in Chief Leyla Isik ...
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
While I'm sad to miss #CCN2026, you don't have to miss out on the cool work coming out of the lab. 😊 Super proud of the diversity of projects this year—from category and unit specialization to inversion effects, shape bias, and memorability in brains and DNNs! Stop by and check them out! #NeuroAI
Graphic showing the VCCN Lab’s contributions to CCN 2026. The design features the VCCN Lab logo on the left, a stylized neural network icon in the center, and “CCN 2026” on the right. Five posters are listed, each accompanied by a headshot of the presenting researcher and the scheduled poster session.
Jakob Winkler: Rethinking the inversion effect as a graded phenomenon across object categories (Poster Session A, Tuesday, August 4, 9:30–11:15 am).
Sule Tasliyurt-Celebi: Memorability varies with how visual information is sampled by humans and models (Poster Session C, Wednesday, August 5, 9:30–11:15 am).
Alban Flachot: More shape bias does not mean more human-like visual representations (Poster Session C, Wednesday, August 5, 9:30–11:15 am).
Lenny van Dyck: Different features shape category selectivity in human visual cortex and DNNs (Poster Session F, Thursday, August 6, 1:45–3:30 pm).
Zhengqing Miao: Functionally specialized units reflect readout pathways rather than distinct feature encoding in artificial neural networks (Poster Session F, Thursday, August 6, 1:45–3:30 pm).
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Dota Tianai Dong @dotadotadota.bsky.social · 21/07/2026
1/5 Over a decade of comparing deep neural networks to the human brain—but what have we actually learned? Our new @cp-trendscognsci.bsky.social Feature Review synthesizes a decade of brain–DNN comparisons, asking what they reveal about brain function across vision and language.
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Lenny van Dyck @levandyck.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Excited to share that our paper is now out in #JNeurosci! We propose a multidimensional framework of high-level visual cortex that reconciles a longstanding debate. Thanks to @kathadobs.bsky.social, @martinhebart.bsky.social, and everyone else for the great discussions along the way. More to come 🧠🌈
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Multidimensional feature tuning in category-selective areas of human visual cortex
Two prominent accounts describe the functional organization of human high-level visual cortex. A categorical view emphasizes category-selective areas, while a dimensional view highlights continuous fe...
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
One of my postdoc's visa application to join #CCN2026 in NYC just got denied. Feeling frustrated with the world... 🌎😕
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 15/05/2026
It's #VSS2026 time! We're super excited to be back and presenting some exciting, ongoing projects in the lab. Come by and say hi! 🤗
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 07/05/2026
Really enjoyed the symposium, the great discussions and being back in Tuebingen! Thanks for having me!
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Highly recommended: I really enjoyed NEAT, every time I attended. Great opportunity to catch up on #NeuroAI, especially for those who can't make it to CCN!
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 08/04/2026
Excellent opportunity to join our wonderful vision science / cognitive neuroscience community in Giessen! Application deadline is tomorrow! 🚀
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Kamila Maria Jozwik @kamilajozwik.bsky.social · 23/03/2026
postdoc and PhD positions in visual cognitive computational neuroscience in my lab at the University of Cambridge kamilajozwik.com/join_lab.html
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Kamila Jozwik - Join lab
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 26/02/2026
Category selectivity vs. behavioral relevance in visual cortex? 👁️🧠 @levandyck.bsky.social and I really enjoyed diving into this piece and appreciated the authors’ thoughtful response. We're curious to see how the field moves forward from here! ➡️
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 24/02/2026
We talk a lot about faces and bodies in cog neuro, but a person is both. So how segregated are face and body representations in human visual cortex? When, and why, do they get integrated? Check out Lenny’s new preprint using DNNs and fMRI encoding models to tackle exactly that question 👇 #NeuroAI
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Kaiser Lab @dkaiserlab.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
📢 Workshop announcement. We are super excited to announce the workshop Perceptual Inferences, from philosophy to neuroscience, organized by Alexander Schütz and Daniel Kaiser. 📍 Rauischholzhausen Castle, near Marburg, Germany 🗓️ June 8 to 10, 2026. 1/4
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Iris Groen @irisgroen.bsky.social · 16/01/2026
I have a PhD opening for my #VIDI BrainShorts project 📽️🧠🤖! Are you or do you know an ambitious, recent (or almost) MSc graduate with a background in NeuroAI and interest in large-scale data collection and video perception? Check out our vacancy! (deadline Feb 15). werkenbij.uva.nl/en/vacancies...
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Vacancy — PhD Position in NeuroAI for Video Perception in the Human Brain
<p><span>Are you interested in using AI to unravel the mysteries of the brain? Do you want to perform cutting-edge NeuroAI research and leverage deep learning to understand human vision? Then check out the vacancy below and apply for a PhD position in this exciting research direction.</span></p>
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Mick Bonner @mickbonner.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
Dimensionality reduction may be the wrong approach to understanding neural representations. Our new paper shows that across human visual cortex, dimensionality is unbounded and scales with dataset size—we show this across nearly four orders of magnitude. journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol...
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Micha Engeser @michaengesee.bsky.social · 04/12/2025
I’m excited to share the first preprint from my PhD project! Together with Daniel Kaiser (@dkaiserlab.bsky.social), we investigated how internal models shape inter-individual differences in the perception and neural processing of natural scenes. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... 1/n
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 03/12/2025
Very excited to be part of the new graduate training program "PIMON" by @dfg.de alongside a fantastic team! 🥳 We're looking forward to training a new generation of scientists in perception, cognition and (inter)action! 🧠🤖👀 Stay tuned for upcoming positions! #PIMON #neurojobs #NeuroAI #vision
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Fernanda Ribeiro @felenitaribeiro.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Investigating individual-specific topographic organization has traditionally been a resource-intensive and time-consuming process. But what if we could map visual cortex organization in thousands of brains? Here we offer the community with a toolbox that can do just that! tinyurl.com/deepretinotopy
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Martin Hebart @martinhebart.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
Please repost! I am looking for a PhD candidate in the area of Computational Cognitive Neuroscience to start in early 2026. The position is funded as part of the Excellence Cluster "The Adaptive Mind" at @jlugiessen.bsky.social. Please apply here until Nov 25: www.uni-giessen.de/de/ueber-uns...
View from your office onto Giessen and surrounding villages.
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 03/10/2025
A little late to the party, but huge congrats, Mona! 🥳
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 04/09/2025
Fantastic news! Congratulations, Mariya 🥳
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Apurva Ratan Murty @apurvaratan.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Find me at the poster session tomorrow! I’ll be standing in for Saskia who unfortunately couldn’t make it. Will presenting joint work with @kathadobs.bsky.social on MEG decoding during object permanence #CCN2025
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Lenny van Dyck @levandyck.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Really looking forward to #CCN2025! On Tuesday, I'm presenting new work with @kathadobs.bsky.social on segregated vs. integrated face & body processing in visual cortex 😊🧍🧠 Using DNNs & fMRI, we test competing hypotheses, finding both distinct & shared selectivity. Come by Poster A64 for more.
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Find them at their posters and chat about these or any other #NeuroAI topics. They’re all excited to hear your feedback! 🧠🤖
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Wednesday (1:00–4:00 pm) • Anastasia (B50): selectivity metrics in DNNs Friday (2:00–5:00 pm) • Zhengqing "John” (C149): resilience of functional specialization in DNNs
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
Tuesday (1:30–4:30 pm) - Elah (A60): holistic face processing in humans & DNNs - @levandyck.bsky.social (A64): face–body integration in DNNs & brains - Sule (A63): top-down effects on neural face representations - Saskia & @apurvaratan.bsky.social: neural decoding during object permanence
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 11/08/2025
So sad (and definitely feeling the FOMO) that I can’t attend #CCN2025 this year 😢, but very proud that our lab will present 6 projects! 🥳 Here's a quick rundown:
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Anne Urai @anne-urai.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
In this world on fire, with misinformation, science and democracy under threat, how can scientists be a force for social good? This Monday in Amsterdam, join @weijima.bsky.social @tsonj.bsky.social Ili Ma + me for an interactive workshop as part of #CCN2025 anneurai.net/2025/05/05/c...
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Scientists for social good: 2025 satellite event
We live in times when public trust in science is under threat, misinformation is rife, AI ethics are of increasing concern and climate change is increasingly affecting communities worldwide. How do…
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Congrats, Lu! 🥳
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Ever wondered whether it's categorical specialization or distributed representation in the human visual cortex? Check out how the brilliant @levandyck.bsky.social tackles this long-standing question in his first PhD project. Spoiler alert: no need to choose anymore! 🤝🔄🧠
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Thanks for the shout-out! 😊 I loved this result too, especially since we didn’t expect such strong differences. That the object-only trained network didn’t show this at all was quite striking!
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 28/05/2025
Sounds like a fantastic PhD opportunity at the intersection of visual neuroscience, AI and developmental psychology! 🧠👁️🤖👶 'lees meer' here 👇
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Looks like a super cool summer school and a great way to enhance your coding skills! 👩‍💻🐍😎
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
So excited that our excellence cluster 'The Adaptive Mind' got funded! 🥳 Looking forward to lots of great science and projects! #TheAdaptiveMind #ExcellenceInitiative 👁️🧠🤖
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
Congrats, Ko! 🥳 And so well deserved!
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Thank you so much, Haemy! There are no right or wrong words, just hearing from you means a lot. 💛 I really appreciate the support. I'm also trying to raise awareness of how much we owe to science, a message that seems to be forgotten by some these days. 🧠✨
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Good morning, Bsky'ers! Some people have asked for a life update, here it is: I finished my last chemotherapy yesterday! 🥳 It’s been a long ride, but I’m feeling happy, relieved, and incredibly grateful. I sort of always knew, but now more than ever: #cancersucks #sciencematters #sciencesaveslives
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Rosa Lafer-Sousa @rosalafersousa.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Courage is contagious! ✊
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Harvard’s defiance of Trump's ‘authoritarian incursion' supported by 60 past and present college and university presidents
Harvard president Alan Garber refused demands made by the Trump admin, which said it will freeze more than $2 billion in grants in response.
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Mashbayar Tugsbayar @tmshbr.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Top-down feedback is ubiquitous in the brain and computationally distinct, but rarely modeled in deep neural networks. What happens when a DNN has biologically-inspired top-down feedback? 🧠📈 Our new paper explores this: elifesciences.org/reviewed-pre...
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Top-down feedback matters: Functional impact of brainlike connectivity motifs on audiovisual integration
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Steven Scholte @neurosteven.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
I am so happy—this is the first 1st author paper I have written, since the cancer diagnosis of my late wife seven years ago. 📑 PAPER ALERT: "Beyond binding: from modular to natural vision" in Trends in Cognitive Sciences (2025) sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Katharina Dobs @kathadobs.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
This post made my day! 🥲
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Grace Lindsay @neurograce.bsky.social · 23/03/2025
I'm organizing a "Data for Good Rapid Response Team", i.e. a set of people who can be mobilized to work on short data science projects to help various groups and organizations. Sign up here if this is of interest to you, and please share with others with data science skills.
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Data-for-good rapid response team
I'm collecting people with data science skills who may want to hear about sporadic opportunities to use their skills for good on short projects. Project themes will center on topics I am connected wit...
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Shahab Bakhtiari @shahabbakht.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
📢 We have a new #NeuroAI postdoctoral position in the lab! If you have a strong background in #NeuroAI or computational neuroscience, I’d love to hear from you. (Repost please) 🧠📈🤖
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Paula Kuokkanen @paulakuokkanen.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Jetzt sind wir schon über 6700, aber Luft nach oben ist ja noch ☀️. Unterschriften werden bis 10:00 heute gesammelt.
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TeaP 2025 @teap2025.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Powerful message from #teap2025 key organizer @melissavo.bsky.social solidarity for science!
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Nancy Kanwisher @nancykanwisher.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
Proud to speak at the StandUpForScience rally in Boston today!
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